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I'm a bald head Samsonite Rastafari with a liking for politics, media, sociology, psychology, economics, ganja and other topics.
What you'll read here are usually posts analyzing the world around me through a Gestalt lens. The picture is clearer when you look at the whole thing, rather than just the flower in the foreground. Join(t) me and read about a world of interconnected problems and possible solutions! And of course, random rantings and weed.
A call for a new war on poverty. For reference, America’s “war on (subject)” has a bad history of flopping, and LBJ’s War on Poverty didn’t do much better. But today we have better insight on the real causes of generational and repetitive poverty. Unfortunately most of the policies that need to be enacted are ferociously fought because of this abstract liberalism that seems to have engulfed the American consciousness. Truth be told, fixing poverty is one of the first steps to stabilizing and invigorating our economy.
One out of every two men that graduate HS between the ages of 15 and 24 will be incarcerated, unemployed, or dead. This makes me seriously fear for my students, all of which are people of color and a little less than half of them being men. It’s crazy that this problem has gotten so bad for men of color that the President of the College Board chose to write about it.
